Recent Drupal developments point to a clearer direction for the project’s AI and developer-experience work. The immediate story is not only that Drupal is adding AI features. Core performance, upgrade tooling, workflow orchestration, and AI governance are …
Artificial intelligence is posing a practical question to Drupal. If AI agents can help plan, build, inspect, and change websites, how easily can they work with Drupal when faster platforms are easier to start? The Drupal AI Initiative made that question …
Governance, infrastructure funding, and release maintenance define this week’s Editor’s Pick as the Drupal Association keeps self-nominations open for its 2026 At-Large Board Election and introduces the Drupal Sustaining Members Program . The updates …
Europe’s open source conversation has shifted from principle to infrastructure. The EU Open Source Strategy situates open technologies within a wider digital sovereignty agenda, with a practical question at its centre: whether Europe can reduce its …
Hello, Drupal community. The first week of June showed Drupal moving from AI experimentation toward a more practical question: how AI-assisted work should be trusted, tested, and governed. Several stories this week explored that shift. Amber Matz examined …
Drupal 12 is still months away, but readiness work is already becoming visible in contributed projects. One recent example comes from Scheduled Transitions 2.9.0-beta4 , which declares compatibility with Drupal ^11.3 || ^12 . The release itself is modest, …
Cybersecurity remained a central concern across enterprise and open-source ecosystems this month as multiple high-profile incidents and critical vulnerability disclosures affected widely deployed platforms. Security teams continued to face pressure to …
Among last week’s more closely watched Drupal business developments was a new initiative from Acquia that directs 2% of eligible partner-driven transactions to the Drupal Association . The contribution is built into Acquia’s updated partner programme and …
The AI industry spent years presenting automation as a cheaper alternative to human labour. In 2026, organisations are discovering that the economics are more complicated. According to Boston Consulting Group , enterprises are expected to increase AI …
Dear readers, There is a quiet crisis unfolding in the Drupal ecosystem, and the community has yet to fully reckon with it. Beginner training programs, once the pipeline through which new developers discovered and committed to Drupal, are drying up one by …